Influential people have an important role in the process of information diffusion. However, there are several ways to be influential, for example, to be the most popular or the...
Internet users regularly have the need to find biographies and facts of people of interest. Wikipedia has become the first stop for celebrity biographies and facts. However, Wik...
Xiaojiang Liu, Zaiqing Nie, Nenghai Yu, Ji-Rong We...
A major challenge in developing models for hypertext retrieval is to effectively combine content information with the link structure available in hypertext collections. Although s...
We introduce a new geometric, rank-based model for the link structure of on-line social networks (OSNs). In the geo-protean (GEO-P) model for OSNs nodes are identified with points ...
We analyze dependencies in power law graph data (Web sample, Wikipedia sample and a preferential attachment graph) using statistical inference for multivariate regular variation. ...